Stanley Cavell looks closely at America's most popular art and our perceptions of it. His explorations of Hollywood's stars, directors, and most famous films--as well as his fresh look at Goddard, Bergman, and other great European directors--will be of lasting interest to movie-viewers and intelligent people everywhere.

Stanley Cavell is Walter M. Cabot Professor, Emeritus, of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value, Harvard University.

Read More by Stanley Cavell:

• Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage
• A Pitch of Philosophy: Autobiographical Exercises
• The Immediate Experience: Movies, Comics, Theatre, and Other Aspects of Popular Culture
• Cities of Words: Pedagogical Letters on a Register of the Moral Life
• Philosophy the Day after Tomorrow